Night after night, Nolan answers calls from strangers who are thinking about ending things. He listens, sympathizes, prods, reassures, coaxes, doing everything he can to help them. But sometimes he loses them—and when that happens, he finds them...and he feeds.
Everything changes when a caller named Eva reaches out. They share stories. Of heart and humor, sadness and horror. As weeks pass and things grow more and more personal between them, Nolan finds himself breaking the rules he’s built his life around, drawn into Eva’s orbit in ways that feel increasingly dangerous... because he suspects she is a vampire too, and with a bloodier moral compass than his own.
Hotline is a haunting, character-driven horror story that blends the claustrophobic tension of The Guilty with the tragic humanity of Let the Right One In.
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BENJAMIN PERCY is the author of seven novels – most recently The Sky Vault (William Morrow, 2023) – as well as three story collections and a book of essays, Thrill Me, that is widely taught in creative writing classrooms. At Marvel Comics, he is known for his runs on Wolverine, X-Force, and Ghost Rider, and currently writes The Punisher, Deadpool, and Star Wars: Shadow of Maul. His novella – American Criminal (NeoText, 2023) – is presently in development with Amazon MGM Studios, with Gavin O'Connor attached to direct. His honors include a Whiting Award, an NEA Fellowship, a McKnight Fellowship, the Plimpton Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, the iHeartRadio Award for Best Scripted Podcast, and inclusion in Best American Short Stories. His latest project is The End Times, a short post-apocalyptic novel told in the form of a newspaper over the course of the year, the collected edition of which is now available for pre-order at Bad Hand Books.
